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Performing Arts and South Asian Literature

Volume 5 Number 2

Description

The essays in this volume discuss the key roles that song, dance, theatre, film, and television drama play in current debates on nation, identity, and cross-cultural translation, and their interactive relationship with modern prose fiction in the South Asian context

Contents

EDITORIAL

Shirley Chew

INTERVIEW

Claire Chambers, An Interview with Geetha Upadhyaya

FICTION

Rukhsana Ahmad, Karachi

Githa Hariharan, Subbalakshmi’s Sari, Imelda’s Fan

Hamid Ismailov, From The Railway

Translated from Russian by Robert Chandler

Vinod Kumar Shukla, Weight

Translated From Hindi by Satti Khanna

POETRY

Amit Chaudhuri, Death of a Bust

ARTICLES

Ranjana Sidhanta Ash, Growing up with Tagore:

Finding the Personal and Political in Rabindranath’s Works

Pallabi Chakravorty, Modernity in Bhakti and Bhakti in Modernity:

Kabir and Kathak

Claire Chambers, ‘Purity of the Classical Forms’:

Sexuality, Gender, and Bharata Natyam in texts from South India

Robert Chandler, Translating The Railway

Rachel Farebrother, ‘Music and National Identity in

Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

Salima Hashmi, ‘The Hue of the Garment’: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and

a New Idiom for the People

Aamer Hussein, Re-reading Sughra Humayun Mirza

Ananya Jahanara Kabir, Beyond Narrative:

Song and Story in South Asia

Satti Khanna, The Consciousness of the Listener:

An Exploration in Video

Neluka Silva, Cultural Resources for Peace:

Teledrama and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lankan Society

Alex Tickell, Great Stories and Small Gods:

Epic and Performance in The God of Small Things

REVIEWS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Moving Worlds is a biannual international magazine, and is a forum for creative work as well as criticism, literary as well as visual texts. Each issue highlights a particular theme and also carries material of general interest. The journal is internationally refereed and is published by Moving Worlds at the School of English, University of Leeds, UK, and School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NTU, Singapore.